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Register Now for the AAFP 2024 Fall Forum CME Event

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The Alabama Academy of Family Physicians invites medical professionals in the state to register now for the 2024 Fall Forum scheduled for the weekend of Saturday, December 14, and Sunday, December 15. The event focuses on the latest clinical practices, innovations in healthcare, and topics trending in the field of family medicine.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

Alex 01:11 We’re delighted to welcome Michelle Milic, who is a pulmonary in critical care and palliative care doc and associate professor of clinical medicine at Georgetown. For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families. Michelle, welcome to GeriPal. Michelle 01:22 Thanks for having us today.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . We didn’t see that in the high rate nursing home.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

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I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy. These are oncology nurse practitioners. I learned nothing.

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